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...from private collectors such as Johnny Allen, 47, a Manhattan film technician who rides his hobby fervidly. Allen keeps in touch with 260 collectors around the world (184 in the U.S.), says: "A collector will never divulge the names of other collectors." Many are specialists, collecting only railroad shots, Ernst Lubitsch film or Tom Mix reels. Among themselves, they swap film, rarely sell it. "When we need something," says Searcher McDonough, "we send out word to a couple of key people in this underground." The networks pay $2.50 a foot for collectors' film, though to get a sequence...
Others followed rival leaders, such as Sam Francis or Robert Motherwell, or sought out stylistic byways they could almost call their own. The byways were apt to be dignified with mysterious road signs: Boon, Creation, Fluxus, Rite, House of Venus I. James Ernst coyly offered a Painting with a Secret Title, which resembled a tangle of TV antennas. Such literary hints and gestures were a change from the blunt titles of abstractions in the last few Whitney annuals, which gave merely a number or a date. Possibly more abstract expressionists were beginning to think in terms of meanings, whether...
...teams fumbled the ball back and forth in the third period, until Yale could get another offensive drive organized. A 27-yard pass from quarterback Ed Klemm to left end Bill Ernst finally gave the Elis the second score that had barely eluded them on several previous occasions...
UNHEARD WITNESS (317 pp.)-Ernst Hanfstaengl-Lippincott...
...Schicklgruber-Hitler was delighted and Naziism began to take shape. That, at any rate, is the way Ernst ("Putzi") Hanfstaengl tells it. A sometime Harvard student (his grandmother was a New England Sedgwick) and longtime Hitler crony, Putzi* began supporting the Nazi Party in 1922 and labored to make it palatable to Germany's "best people...